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The Patriline in the Bible The Patriline in the Bible
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The Patrilineal Model in Anthropology: A Historical Overview The Patrilineal Model in Anthropology: A Historical Overview
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Biblical Scholarship and the Reevaluation of Kinship in the Bible Biblical Scholarship and the Reevaluation of Kinship in the Bible
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The Bible as the Primary Source for Biblical Kinship The Bible as the Primary Source for Biblical Kinship
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Extra-Biblical Literary Sources from the Ancient Near East Extra-Biblical Literary Sources from the Ancient Near East
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Modern Ethnographies Modern Ethnographies
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Archaeology Archaeology
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Methodology: A Discourse Analysis of Indigenous Hebrew Kinship Terms Methodology: A Discourse Analysis of Indigenous Hebrew Kinship Terms
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Introduction: Disrupting the Begats (tôlēdôt)
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Published:October 2016
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Abstract
This chapter examines the critique of the patrilineal model within current anthropological literature in order to reconsider the claim that ancient Israel was a pure patrilineal society. While biblical writers valued patrilineality and preserved that value explicitly within the paternal begettings, known in Hebrew as the tôlēdôt, they consistently followed the exclusively paternal genealogies with narratives that introduced households. The biblical house, as opposed to the patriline, contained fathers, mothers, wives, concubines, slave wives, firstborn sons, second-born sons, daughters, foreigners, and slaves. The introduction of women and maternally defined subgroups of kin disrupts the neatness of a patrilineal genealogy, marking divisions within a paternal line. When the biblical patriline becomes a noisy, fully peopled house, we find not only a father and his firstborn son, but a series of maternally aligned kin groups with specific kinship labels that delineate maternal sub-houses within the larger house of the father.
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